Training

On May 19 and 20, 2016, Hadley Wickham will teach his two day Master R Developer Workshop in the centrally located European city of Amsterdam.
Are you ready to upgrade your R skills? Register soon to secure your seat.
For the convenience of those who may travel to the workshop, it will be held at the Hotel NH Amsterdam Schiphol Airport.
Hadley teaches a few workshops each year and this is the only one planned for Europe.
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Are you ready to upgrade your R skills? Register soon to secure your seat.
On January 28 and 29, 2016, Hadley Wickham will teach his popular Master R Developer Workshop at the Westin San Francisco Airport. The workshop is offered only 3 times a year and the San Francisco class is already nearly 50% full. This is the only Master R Developer Workshop Hadley is planning for the US West Coast in 2016.
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The RStudio IDE is bursting with capabilities and features. Do you know how to use them all? Tomorrow, we begin an “RStudio Essentials” webinar series. This will be the perfect way to learn how to use the IDE to its fullest. The series is broken into six sections always on a Wednesday at 11 a.m. EDT:
Programming Part 1 (Writing code in RStudio) - December 2nd
Programming Part 2 (Debugging code in RStudio) - December 9th
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RStudio will again teach the new essentials for doing (big) data science in R at this year’s Strata NYC conference, September 29 2015 (http://strataconf.com/big-data-conference-ny-2015/public/schedule/detail/44154). You will learn from Garrett Grolemund, Yihui Xie, and Nathan Stephens who are all working on fascinating new ways to keep the R ecosystem apace of the challenges facing those who work with data.
Topics include:
R Quickstart: Wrangle, transform, and visualize data Instructor: Garrett Grolemund (90 minutes)
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The articles section on shiny.rstudio.com has lots of great advice for Shiny developers.
A recent article by Dean Attali demonstrates how to save data from a Shiny app to persistent storage structures, like local files, servers, databases, and more. When you do this, your data remains after the app has closed, which opens new doors for data collection and analysis.
Read Dean’s article and more at shiny.rstudio.com/articles
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We’ve added two new tools that make it even easier to learn Shiny.
Video tutorial The How to Start with Shiny training video provides a new way to teach yourself Shiny. The video covers everything you need to know to build your own Shiny apps. You’ll learn:
The architecture of a Shiny app
A template for making apps quickly
The basics of building Shiny apps
How to add sliders, drop down menus, buttons, and more to your apps
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“Master” R in Washington DC this September!
Join RStudio Chief Data Scientist Hadley Wickham at the AMA – Executive Conference Center in Arlington, VA on September 14 and 15, 2015 for this rare opportunity to learn from one of the R community’s most popular and innovative authors and package developers.
It will be at least another year before Hadley returns to teach his class on the East Coast, so don’t miss this opportunity to learn from him in person.
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This is a guest post by Vincent Warmerdam of koaning.io.
SparkR preview in Rstudio Apache Spark is the hip new technology on the block. It allows you to write scripts in a functional style and the technology behind it will allow you to run iterative tasks very quickly on a cluster of machines. It’s benchmarked to be quicker than hadoop for most machine learning use cases (by a factor between 10-100) and soon Spark will also have support for the R language.
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Join RStudio Chief Data Scientist Hadley Wickham at the University of Illinois at Chicago, on Wednesday May 27th & 28th for this rare opportunity to learn from one of the R community’s most popular and innovative authors and package developers.
As of this post, the workshop is two-thirds sold out. If you’re in or near Chicago and want to boost your R programming skills, this is Hadley’s only Central US public workshop planned for 2015.
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We’ve added a new cheatsheet to our collection. Data Visualization with ggplot2 describes how to build a plot with ggplot2 and the grammar of graphics. You will find helpful reminders of how to use:
geoms
stats
scales
coordinate systems
facets
position adjustments
legends, and
themes
The cheatsheet also documents tips on zooming.
Download the cheatsheet here.
Bonus - Frans van Dunné of Innovate Online has provided Spanish translations of the Data Wrangling, R Markdown, Shiny, and Package Development cheatsheets.
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